Cutting down feeding = shit sleep

[ZadieZadie]

DD is 11 months.

I've just gone back to work so DH is on pat leave, and I've cut down BFing to first thing, once during the day, and bedtime.

DD now has some formula during the day but never much - she has always been EBF and would never take a bottle when she was tiny.

She eats plenty of real food.

Since I cut down BFing she's gone from sleeping through or being up once and easy to resettle, to being awake for ages during the night and only really settling if we cosleep, which I don't want to do.

Help! I know it's probably because she misses me and misses BFing. I'm wfh so could technically feed her more, but she's off to nursery after Christmas so I need her to be able to cope without me.

Any tips?

Bumping for those of you not awake at 3am...

Why do something that makes your life more difficult?

Go back to bf as before if it’s better. As for nursery, she will cope fine. She’ll either eat more at nursery, or have a bigger bf next time she sees you.

Don’t self impose rules that make your life (and hers!) harder!

Why are you against co-sleeping? Is she still in your room?

You are right she is missing you as her main carer her whole life!

Has the rest of her routine changed much with DH as her main carer? That could impact.

Will she take formula from a cup rather than a bottle?

If she is starting nursery soon, I wouldn't worry too much as that will be another massive change - tackle things all at once then if necessary.